Supply Chain Network Robustness Against Disruptions: Topological Analysis, Measurement, and Optimization

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2018-04-01
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Zhao, Kang
Scheibe, Kevin
Blackhurst, Jennifer
Kumar, Akhil
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Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management is an integrated program of study concerned with the efficient flow of materials, products, and information within and among organizations. It involves the integration of business processes across organizations, from material sources and suppliers through manufacturing, and processing to the final customer. The program provides you with the core knowledge related to a wide variety of supply chain activities, including demand planning, purchasing, transportation management, warehouse management, inventory control, material handling, product and service support, information technology, and strategic supply chain management.
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This paper focuses on understanding the robustness of a supply network in the face of a disruption. We propose a decision support system for analyzing the robustness of supply chain networks against disruptions using topological analysis, performance measurement relevant to a supply chain context and an optimization for increasing supply network performance. The topology of a supply chain network has considerable implications for its robustness in the presence of disruptions. The system allows decision makers to evaluate topologies of their supply chain networks in a variety of disruption scenarios, thereby proactively managing the supply chain network to understand vulnerabilities of the network before a disruption occurs. Our system calculates performance measurements for a supply chain network in the face of disruptions and provides both topological metrics (through network analysis) and operational metrics (through an optimization model). Through an example application, we evaluate the impact of random and targeted disruptions on the robustness of a supply chain network.

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This article is published as Zhao,K., Scheibe,K.P., Blackhurst, J., Kumar, A.; Supply Chain Network Robustness Against Disruptions: Topological Analysis, Measurement, and Optimization. IEEE transactions on Engineering Management. April 2018, 99; 1-13. DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2018.2808331. Posted with permission.

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